Workshop on processing large amounts of musical information

This workshop is organized by CIRMMT Research Axis 3 (Musical information retrieval, archiving and analysis). It will take place on February 17th, in A832 (New Music Building). This workshop is free and open to all. Registration is required.

Workshops and Research Meetings
February 17, 2012
13:30 - 20:00
A832, New Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke St. West.
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Description

The Workshop will discuss issues, challenges, and implications when working with large amounts of musical information. Some of the new tools and methodologies will be presented.

Guests/speakers

  • Thierry Bertin-Mahieux, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University
  • John Ashley Burgoyne, CIRMMT, Schulich School of Music, McGill University
  • Julie Cumming, CIRMMT, Schulich School of Music, McGill University
  • Michael Cuthbert, Music Program, MIT
  • J. Stephen Downie, GSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Ichiro Fujinaga, CIRMMT, Schulich School of Music, McGill University
  • Frauke Jurgenson, Music, University of Aberdeen
  • Ian Quinn, Music Department, Yale University
  • George Tzanetakis, Computer Science Department, University of Victoria
  • Christopher White, Music Department, Yale University

Schedule

13:30-13:45 Introduction

13:45-14:15 Frauke Jurgenson: Computer applications to questions of performance and compositional practice in Renaissance music

14:15-14:45 George Tzanetakis: Stacking for Music Tag Annotation

14:45-15:15 Michael Cuthbert: Research on Music Corpora with Music21: Completed Tasks and Future Applications

15:15-15:45 Thierry Bertin-Mahieux: What is a song, and how many do I have?

15:45-16:00 Ashley Burgoyne: SALAMI/Billboard groundtruth databases

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-16:55 Ian Quinn: Prototype of an Interactive Concordancer in Music21

16:55-17:10 Christopher White: Alphabet reduction with a Spellchecking Procedure

17:10-17:30 Ichiro Fujinaga: SIMSSA: Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis

17:30-17:40 Julie Cumming: ELVIS: Electronic Locator of Vertical Interval Successions

17:40-18:00 General Discussion with J. Stephen Downie

18:00-20:00 Reception with Pizza

Registration

Registration is mandatory as seating is limited (25 seats): Workshop on processing large amounts of musical information - registration